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Exhibition: ‘Candida Höfer: A Return to Italy’ at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th April 2013 . Ah symmetry, that vague sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance, that patterned self-similarity that, through Hofer’s large format...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Centennial’ at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: 21st February – 27th April 2013 . What an admirable photographer Gordon Parks was. It is a joy to see five of his colour photographs in this posting because I have never seen any...
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Exhibition: ‘The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th April 2012 – 29th April 2013 . Another fascinating exhibition and a bumper posting to boot (pardon the pun!) A panoply of famous photographers along with a few I had never heard...
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Exhibition: ‘The Greatest Wonder of the World’ at the State Library of New...
Exhibition dates: 23rd Feb 2013 – 12th May 2013 . Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth...
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Exhibition: ‘Laure Albin Guillot: The Question of Classicism’ at Jeu de...
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 12th May 2013 . The ravishing sensuality of the nudes make all the hours spent assembling this blog worthwhile! . Many thankx to Jue de Paume for allowing me to...
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Exhibition: ‘Arnold Newman: Masterclass’ at the Harry Ransom Center, The...
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Harry Ransom Center for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art’...
Exhibition dates: 26th January – 12th May 2013 . A second tranche of images from this touring exhibition of photographs from the MoMA collection, presented at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilles Caron, The Conflict Within’ at The Musée de l’Elysée,...
Exhibition dates: 30th January – 12th May 2013 . Dead at 30 Died so young Probably at the barrel of a snub nosed gun. Guilt, narcissism, parody or irony Doesn’t matter now He’s dead… Photos live on ....
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Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 18th May 2013 . Undertaking research in to the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole, I wanted to know more about “South African colonial photography”...
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Exhibition: ‘Yang Fudong: “Estranged Paradise. Works 1993 – 2013″‘ at...
Exhibition dates: 6th April – 26th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Kunsthalle Zürich for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Edith Tudor-Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny’ at the Scottish...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 26th May 2013 . Another photographer unknown to me, who ”attempted to use the camera as a political weapon, aligning her practice with the wider worker photography...
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Exhibition: ‘Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction’ at Moderna Museet,...
Exhibition dates: 16 February – 26 May 2013 . I don’t often say this about an artist but OMG, I am in love! Five years before Wassily Kandinsky (he of the book Concerning the Spiritual In Art 1910),...
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Exhibition: ‘Garry Winogrand’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 2nd June 2013 . “Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.” . Garry Winogrand . . Playing God with his film Form and content. Form and content I don’t like the...
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Exhibition: ‘Harry Callahan Retrospective’ at the House of Photography at...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 9th June 2013 . Great to see some early colour photographs from this master. . Many thankx to the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg for allowing me to publish...
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Exhibition: ‘The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951′ at The...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 16th June 2013 . Conscience of the brave Bradley Manning. A slight, bespectacled, intelligent gay man. A man who has the courage of his convictions. He revealed truth at...
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Review: ‘Lee Grant / Belco Pride’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 22nd June 2013 . In this body of work, the photographer Lee Grant comes as close as you are ever likely to come to an Australian version of the American photographer Alec...
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Exhibition: ‘Tim Hetherington / Doug Rickard’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 22nd May to 22nd June 2013 In association with Yossi Milo Gallery and Head On Photo Festival . “Our generation is not attached to this myth of photography as objective reporting...
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Review: ‘Johsel Namkung: A Retrospective’ published by Cosgrove Editions, 2013
Published by Cosgrove Editions, Johsel Namkung • A Retrospective is a collection of one hundred exquisite images selected from a remarkable career in photography spanning six decades. . . “I like to...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: South Yarra and surrounds, 1994
. I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991 – 1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. These...
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Exhibition: ‘The Naked Man’ at Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 30th June 2013 . Many thankx to the Ludwig Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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